%0 Journal Article
%T A Combinatorial Model for the Teichmuller Metric
%A Kasra Rafi
%J Mathematics
%D 2005
%I arXiv
%X We study how the length and the twisting parameter of a curve change along a Teichmuller geodesic. We then use our results to provide a formula for the Teichmuller distance between two hyperbolic metrics on a surface, in terms of the combinatorial complexity of curves of bounded lengths in these two metrics.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509584v1